The Animals - When I Was Young Tab

Subject: a/animals/when_i_was_young.crd

                           "When I Was Young"
            (Burdon - Briggs - Weider - Jenkins - McCulloch)

Intro:
        Em
        /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /

        [5X: 1: bass (eighth notes) w/cymbal
             2: electric guitar (tune low E down to D and back up)
             3: acoustic guitar enters
             4: violin enters]

Verse 1:
             Em                 D
        The rooms were so much colder then
            Em           D
        My father was a soldier then
             Em              D
        And times were very hard
                    Em
        When I was young

        Riff 1 [guitar and violin, arranged for two guitars]:
        (Em)
         v          v          v          v             v

  
                    12 14 12   10 12 10   9  10  9    
 7  
  
                    10 12 10   8  10 8    7  8   7    
 5  
  
                                                      
    
  
                                                      
    
  
                                                      
    
  
                                                      
    
        (young)

             /D     Em   [Riff 1]
        When I was young

Verse 2:
        I smoked my first cigarette at ten
        And for girls I had a bad yen
        And I had quite a ball
        When I was young [Riff 1]
        Em
        / / / /  / / / /

Bridge:
             G                   Em
        When I was young it was more important
                                                        D
        Pain, more pain, but I laughed so much louder, yeah
                    Em
        When I was young [Riff 1]
            (D)     Em
        When I was young [Riff 1]
Verse 3:
        I met my first love at thirteen
        She was brown and I was pretty green
        And I learned quite a lot
        When I was young [Riff 1]
            /D      Em [N.C.]
        When I was young

Instrumental break:
        [key changes to Gm]:

        Gm       F       [3X]
        / / / /  / / / /
        Gm
        / / / /  / / / /

Chorus [in Bb]
             Bb                  Gm
        When I was young it was more important
                                                           F
        Pain, more pain, though I laughed so much louder, yeah
                    Gm
        When I was young

        Riff 2 [guitar and violin, arranged for two guitars]:
        (Gm)
         v          v          v          v             v

  
                    15 17 15   14 15 14   12 14  12   
 10 
  
                    13 15 13   11 13 11   10 11  10   
 8  
  
                                                      
    
  
                                                      
    
  
                                                      
    
  
                                                      
    
        (young)                *     *       *  parts do not always track
                                                in parallel fifths

                    Gm  [N.C.]
        When I was young

Verse 4 [chords implied by bass]:
             Gm                 F
        My faith was so much stronger then
        Gm             F
        I believed in fellow men
        Gm                 F
        And I was so much older then
                    Gm  [acoustic guitar strums Gm chord; violin enters]
        When I was young
        When I was young

Coda:
        [band re-enters]

        (Gm)
        When I was young  [repeat to fade]